1. Why Christians are commanded to pray down curses upon their enemies. This episode, Christ in the Psalms, by Patrick Henry Reardon. What's an imprecatory psalm? Why are we taught by Scripture to pray imprecatory psalms, but have largely excluded such prayers from our churches? How does psalm 5 point us to Jesus and culture simultaneously?
  2. When we are suffering persecutions, falsely accused and battling our own emotions, the truth of His grace is greater than anything that can attack us, including ourown thoughts.
  3. Asking God to be gracious to me, because my enemies are trampling on me.
  4. The Psalm is written in the cave, referring to the time David was hiding from Saul and his soldiers.
  5. David states a very bold accusation that God has rejected and abandoned him. The land is quaking, shaking and full of tragedy.
  6. This Psalm describes the wicked and the arrogant thoughts and scenes of wicked preying upon the poor.
  7. A call for God to hear our cries, a call for the Good Shepherd to carry His people. Going down to the pit, a prayer that God rescue him, lest he end up stuck there forever.
  8. In Psalm 3, David is fleeing from Absalom, and many are saying there is no God that will save him.
  9. Psalm 7 is a prayer that gives expression to those who have experienced persecution.
  10. As this Psalm is set in the the time of the Babylonian exile, Chad Bird meditates on the types of exile we find in scripture and in our lives.
  11. There are times when we feel farther away from God than we used to be. This reminds us that even though we feel exiled, God is with us in our exile.